Out of interest, why (d|w)on't Sun provide the binaries for Linux on sparc?

Iain.

According to Sun. Solaris is the one and only true platform for Sparc. For that same reason a lot of BSD folks have trouble getting information from Sun about their hardware.

But it is not only Sun. Take the guys who make flash (macromedia?) for example. Flash is available for linux, but they think linux runs only on x86. So no binaries for linux on sparc, stupid closed sources.